Horia Macellariu

Horia Macellariu (28 April 1894-11 July 1989) was Chief of the Navy of Romania from 1943 to 23 August 1944 during World War II.

Biography
Horia Macellariu was born on 28 April 1894 in Craiova, Romania, and he served with distinction in the Romanian Navy during World War I. From 1927 to 1928 he studied at the Naval War School in Paris, France, and he became fluent in French, Italian, English, and German in addition to Romanian. He became Chief-of-Staff of the Navy General Headquarters on 22 June 1941 when Romania entered World War II on the side of Nazi Germany, and in 1943 he was appointed Chief of the Navy. In 1944, he resigned after Romania joined the Allied Powers, and Macellariu led resistance forces against the communist government after the war's end in 1945. In 1948, he failed to gain United States support in his uprising against the communist regime, and he was imprisoned until 1964 for his opposition to the regime. He was released in an amnesty, and he died in 1989 in Bucharest.